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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It ... “I’m not sure.” Smile and wave at everyone you know, even if they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... needed to fulfill my HASS-Arts requirement (we’re required to take at least ... Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT, fondly nicknamed the MCube lab. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... : Part 2, written in late freshman spring, got really dark at the end, then ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are ... , necrosis, and autophagy. My project looks at a protein, humanin, that ... get squeezed out of my Google Calendar. The weekends are an incredible

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It ... . Try to remember how lucky you are every day. 7. At least a few times

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  talked about this proposal, and this need, at the next blogger meeting, and ... identities at MIT, where they felt welcome, none have been "out" on the blogs ... few weeks ago, Yuliya hosted a guest post about all the gay events at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... surprised when it’s a struggle. I have done this before, caught myself at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination. In a brain ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Contents 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 2. MIT: The ... . Technology 1934 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 28 mins ... social challenges at MIT. The students and researchers in this video share

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  . The day had been fairly normal so far, if unfocused: my Google Calendar ... ; furthermore, people walk at close to three miles per hour, or sixty blocks per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... made, feat. Robby circa early 2011. wow. Amazing (at that point I hadn ... somewhat better at the design software I was using and procrastinated on my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  also feature practice questions with solutions at the bottom.    ... sheets and study guides that get sent to your email when you sign up at ... not fit in this blog so at the bottom of this section is a link to a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... my life--school was hard, sleep was not happening, UROP-ing at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I ... literally 0 times) at 10PM on Thursday. (It's not fun, in case you were ... people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017